The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-08-07


Of Catholic farmers, merchants or
storekeepers.
At first sight this may seem alb.
surd, but there is no FIRE without
smoke, aud an historical and psyche
logical study Of that part of ireland
would probably give due cause for
its being SO.
Possibly in the zenith of his fame
he found it easier too WOO and win a
dukes niece, than he would have
found it to espouse one of those
damsels OF class 80 much nearer his
own.
The men Of his family, at least in
this generation, do not even come
within the category described as
poor. but respectable; they are in
trinsically low; his uncle and cousins
are hard drinking mon; some say
something worse. No amount OF
patronage seems able to raise them.
His uncle, Caleb Tyndall, recently
deceased, had pension Of $500 per
annum for having held the Office Of
BUTTER MASTER
at the Leighinbridge market. The
Office was worth $1,000 a year, and
when this pretty little sinecure for
rewardiug political dependents was
abolished, Caleb, having held it only
few months, got half tho amount
for a pension. He, with his family,
lived in a small farmhouse between
Bagenalstown and Leighinbridge
"a vile house that, taking away
GATHERINGS beauty and the mad
passion of her lover. might
have served as model for
that awful household in Whitening
Hights." The best of his sons,
William, is a process server" a
kind OF under sheriff's officer. The
professor now and then comes to his
aid, for, kind hearted man that he is.
he is ever ready to help with his
purse those relations who are 80 lit
tie credit to him, not solely because
OF their low social standing.
A first cousin of John Tyn-
dali, grandson OF Neackasy,
the blacksmith, was pri-
vate soldier; he used to relate with
much glee that during his service
in India he, with another, caught
an unfortunate bayadere and stole
her silver anklers, cutting them of
her legs. After his discharge he
was arrested for theft, and
it is TO be mercifully hoped
that he died since. The
great mathematician emphatically
stands out alone. morally, in
tellectually and socially from his re-
lations; old croues tell OF q terrible
curse that weighs on them all. A
priest, whose earn" still lifts its
stony voice crying for vengance, was
assassinatcd under circumstances of
peculiar atrocity some sixty years
ago, and nearly all Of Tyudall's fore
bears" were supposed to be impli-
Gated.
His career has been an exception.
ably splendid one. Socially speak
ing, he is the equal, perhaps the su.
ptfloTi VI priUc'h. ~ " Hu nOnOr 70
be invited TO that stately home Of his
in London, where Injuries surround
him, that to his poverty stricken
toviicod seemed as far off as the
splendors of heaven. In the study
OF his darling, all absorbing pursuit,
that left him no empty moment, he
has acquired wealth enough TO salts
~ his desires; domestic love has
filed his already OVERLOOKING cup (;
yet, is there not n note OF unutterable
sadness in that confession OF his
shat sometimes in his happiest mo.
ments he believes in a God" Prince
OF materialistic philosophers, il
would be grim irony, we're there
any truth in the weird superstition
the peasants, that the shadow Of the
murdered priest ever looms over the
perpetrators OF tho crime and their
descendants, striking in the midst OF
their songs OF joy, a minor chord
anguished aud wailing as the cry Of
the lonely banshee. AIM.